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The Hills are Alive
Days 17-18 Lorgues/Aix les Bains Goodbye beautiful abode and stunning Provence. House gleaming, we left Villa des Roses and headed for Aix les Bains. Our journey was on the long side for us – 4.5 hours not including stops – but the time seemed to fly by. That’s what happens when you know you’re…
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The Hills are Alive
Days 15 and 16 – Lorgues Our new home is in a very tranquil spot. There’s the odd aeroplane and helicopter that flies over but nothing that interferes with the calm and serenity of our abode. We have spent two full days around the pool, reading, snoozing, route planning and swimming. The night sky…
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The Hills are Alive
Day 14 – drive to Lorgues Today it’s goodbye to Casa Laura. Good riddance is too strong but the lack of comfort here has been an issue. The sofa was comfortable but every other piece of furniture including the bed appeared to be designed for maximum bum pain. We’ve noticed this before in Italy that…
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The Hills are Alive
Day 12 – Italian Riviera walking/cycling route We woke up full of aches today. Walking the Riviera dei Fiori route isn’t as easy as it looks! This morning we planned and booked our next part of our road trip. We are having 3 nights near Lorgues in the Var region of France. Our accommodation has…
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The Hills are Alive
Day 11 – Imperia Annoyingly, I woke up at 2am and didn’t get back to sleep until gone 4. No rhyme or reason for it. The good thing is I’m enjoying my audiobook – Michelle Obama “Becoming”. Listening to it passed the time well. Today was an exploration of the promenade/cycle path that stretches from…
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The Hills are Alive
Day 10 – Rovereto/Imperia We woke up this morning to rain. It had at last arrived. We had a relaxing hour or so reading the news before getting up and getting on our way. We knew this was going to be a 5 hour travel day if not more , not our favourite and could…
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The Hills are Alive
Day 9 -Bad Reichenhall/Rovereto Cloudy but none of the biblical rain that was forecasted. Weather forecasting seems to have become less and less accurate yet much money has been spent on sophisticated systems and models that should ensure the opposite. I did an AI search on this and got a very chippy answer, obviously AI…
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The Hills are Alive
Day 8 Eagle’s Nest/Bad Reichenhall Early start this morning as we had to leave the apartment by 8.30am to get to Berchtesgaden in order to catch our allotted 9.20am bus to Kehlsteinhsus aka Eagles Nest. For anyone who doesn’t know, the Eagle’s Nest was a very important place during the Nazi rule. It was used…
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The Hills are Alive
Day 7 – Bad Reichenhall – Dotzenkopf A decent night’s sleep at last – hallelujah! The church bells in the town rang in celebration, very kind of them. Although it is Sunday. We pottered about this morning doing useful things like getting some washing done, planning where we go next and the like. The highlight…
Middle-aged flash packers
The ramblings and wanderings of two middle-aged travellers up for adventure
- 2021 – There are no plans. Covid
- About
- Australia/Vietnam Revisited 2025
- Bulgaria – Roses and Trains 2025
- Cabo de Gata 2024
- Costa Rica 2015
- Escape to Italy 2017
- Going round in Circles – Circumnavigating Spain 2021
- Gran Canaria – The Isle of Dogs
- Greece – Pottering The Peloponnese 2021
- Into Africa – 2022
- Into Africa -November/December 2022
- Jordan Jaunts 2023
- Mini adventure in Northern Portugal – 2018
- Mission Triglav – Slovenia, Italy, France 2017
- My blog
- Myanmar and Thailand 2019
- Oman 2019
- Oz Odyssey – Australia, Fiji,Hawaii 2016
- Panama 2023
- Return of the Road Warriors – Europe revisited 2019 Liechenstein, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Germany
- Road Trip to Anywhere – France, Italy, ? 2022
- Roaming the Rhodope – Bulgaria
- Sicily wanderings – on the volcano trail
- Tea, Trains and Temples – A journey around Sri Lanka 2017
- Tenerife 2024
- The Grand Tour – Driving from UK to Turkey and back again 2015
- The Hills are Alive – Austria road trip September 2025
- The Silk Road – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan 2019
- Turkey – 2020
- Wainwrights Lake District UK part 2 2022 March
- Walking the Wainwrights part 1 – Lake District UK 2021
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